The Brazilian Town Being Slowly Swallowed by the Sea

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*** ONE-TIME USE *** ATAFONA, BRAZIL - MARCH 09, 2023: Ruins of houses in Atafona buried by sand. Since the 1960s, 14 blocks have been lost to the sea.Photo: Tommaso Protti for The Wall Street Journal

Atafona, losing as much as 18 feet a year of coastline, is an extreme example of the challenge facing a country with some 4,600 miles of shores.

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